Property, Liberty, Identity
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Of the RIGHTS of THINGS. Chapter the Ninth. Of Estates, Less than Freehold. This chapter is about how to give somebody property without giving him...
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Blackstone Plants a Tree
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Eighth. Of FREEHOLDS, NOT of INHERITANCE. There’s a saying that the rich plan for three generations while the poor plan for...
Forthcoming: Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2 @hartpublishing
Forthcoming: Vienna Lectures on Legal Philosophy, Volume 2: Normativism and Anti-normativism in Law (Christoph Bezemek, Michael Potacs, and Alexander Somek eds., Hart Publishing, 2020). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of...
Trickster Lawyer, Trickster Daughter
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Seventh. Of FREEHOLD ESTATES, of INHERITANCE. This chapter is about the way you need to own something in order to pass it...
Ramirez Santos and Egio Garcia on The Research on the School of Salamanca
Celia Alejandra Ramirez Santos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and José Luis Egío García have published The Research on the School of Salamanca (2008-2019). A Conceptual and Multidisciplinary Bibliography as Max Planck Institute for European...
Castles in the Air
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second, Chapter the Sixth. Of the Modern ENGLISH TENURES. Okay, I finally get it. I get why it’s such a big deal to ‘own...
Sing in me, oh Muse!
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Fifth. Of the Antient ENGLISH TENURES. This self-consciously historical chapter describes a kind of land ownership that was, as the chapter’s...
Law in the Ruins
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Fourth. Of the FEODAL SYSTEM. For Blackstone it is an article of faith that the way things are can be...
Theater of the Invisible
Jessie Allen, School of Law, University of Pittsburgh Book the Second. Chapter the Third. Of Incorporeal Hereditaments. Blackstone isn’t famous for making something out of nothing, but for giving a new twist to...
Thomas Poole on the Pandemic Imagery In Leviathan’s Frontispiece @LRB @DrTomPoole
Thomas Poole discusses the frontispiece of Leviathan‘s first edition for the London Review of Books. He focuses on the tiny images of two physicians in the illustration. Amid the rest of the much more familiar...